Glossary

Acronyms
View:
61-70 of 1034
Glossary and Acronyms
Term Sort ascending Definition
URGENTLY NEEDED CARE

Care that you get for a sudden illness or injury that needs medical care right away, but is not life threatening. Your primary care doctor generally provides urgently needed care if you are in a Medicare health plan other than the Original Medicare Plan. If you are out of your plan's service area for a short time and cannot wait until you return home, the health plan must pay for urgently needed care.

UNITED NATIONS RULES FOR ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE FOR ADMINISTRATION, COMMERCE, AND TRANSPORT

An international EDI format. Interactive X12 transactions use the EDIFACT message syntax.

UNITED NATIONS CENTRE FOR FACILITATION OF PROCEDURES AND PRACTICES FOR ADMINISTRATION, COMMERCE, AND TRANSPORT

An international organization dedicated to the elimination or simplification of procedural barriers to international commerce.

UNIT INPUT INTENSITY ALLOWANCE

The amount added to, or subtracted from, the hospital input price index to yield the PPS update factor.

UNIFORM CLAIM TASK FORCE

An organization that developed the initial HCFA-1500 Professional Claim Form. The maintenance responsibilities were later assumed by the NUCC.

UNASSIGNED CLAIM

A claim submitted for a service or supply by a provider who does not accept assignment.

UB-92

An electronic format of the CMS-1450 paper claim form that has been in general use since 1993.

UB-82

A uniform institutional claim form developed by the NUBC that was in general use from 1983 - 1993.

TTY

A teletypewriter (TTY) is a communication device used by people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a severe-speech impairment. A TTY consists of a keyboard, display screen, and modem. Messages travel over regular telephone lines. People who don’t have a TTY can communicate with a TTY user through a message relay center (MRC). An MRC has TTY operators available to send and interpret TTY messages.

TT

tester